Steinway Lyngdorf has created the first Steinway & Sons soundbar, the Model S Soundbar. It is driven by digital amplification and RoomPerfect technology, which calibrates it for any room and placement.
The Model S Soundbar, which is being marketed as “the world’s largest and most powerful soundbar,” features a high-performance design with two woofers, three Air Motion Transformer tweeters, and three midrange drivers, all powered by four digital amplifiers with a combined 1,600 watts.
The extremely rigid and heavy enclosure is made from a machined solid aluminum front and back panels, housing a low-resonance MDF frame with five acoustically separated chambers inside.
The Air Motion Transformer tweeters with Kapton foil and the midrange drivers with anodized aluminum cones are powered by very strong neodymium magnets. The left-center-right configuration allows a very stable center soundstage and imaging, either in pure stereo or with center channel upmixing/multichannel downmixing in the digital Steinway & Sons processor.
The two 10’’ woofers are a high-excursion design with a four-layer voice coil, anodized aluminum cone, very powerful neodymium magnet, and an ultra-rigid cast aluminum basket. The result is a level of bass performance uncommon from soundbars, according to the manufacturer.
“The new soundbar is not meant to be of lesser quality or a compromise on sound, as many other soundbar solutions are,” said Thomas Birkelund, CEO and CTO at Steinway Lyngdorf. “I think you will see that the size and the look signals that this is not a compromise but rather meant for a smaller setup, with the same Steinway Lyngdorf quality. This is for the installations where our other products do not fit, but you still want a Steinway product with your TV.”
The Model S Soundbar black front is complemented by signature gold-plated tweeter frames and bronze-gold lacquered sides with black strings, resembling a piano and musical instruments. Every Model S Soundbar is assembled and finished by hand in Skive, Denmark, made to the same quality standards as a Steinway & Sons piano and giving this soundbar its familiar appearance and longevity. Customized lacquers and finishes are available on request.
As with every Steinway & Sons loudspeaker, the Model S Soundbar is part of the company’s Integrated System Approach, ensuring all parts of the system, from the speaker itself to the external Steinway & Sons stereo or surround processors and powerful digital amplifiers, work together as one. Steinway Lyngdorf’s RoomPerfect technology is the finishing touch for each system. RoomPerfect acoustically calibrates the Soundbar to the room acoustics, always ensuring the very best sound experience for every customer, in any room and any speaker placement.
The new Steinway & Sons Model S Soundbar will be available end of Q3 2024. System prices depend on the choice of stereo or surround processor.
